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Celebrating Museum Library Week with the OCLC RLP

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt - Leave a Comment

In case you missed it, it is #MuseumLibraryWeek, hosted on social media by Thomas J. Watson Library (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Both …

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Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums

OAICatMuseum now supports the LIDO XML Schema

May 24, 2012 - by Bruce Washburn - 1 Comment

One of the contributions made by OCLC Research to its Museum Data Exchange project was the OAICatMuseum OAI-PMH repository software. OAICatMuseum is an extension to OCLC’s OAICat software that included …

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Collective Collections / Museums

Museum Data Exchange – Report Executive Summary

January 15, 2010June 20, 2017 - by Günter Waibel

The final report of the Museum Data Exchange grant will be released on the OCLC Research website later this month. As a first impression of key outcomes, I’ve posted the …

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Collective Collections / Digital Preservation / Modeling new services / Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice

The Cult of Brewster Finds Its Church

October 20, 2009October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

Last night Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive unveiled his latest project in a venue suitable for any high priest or cult leader — a former Christian Science Church in …

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Crowdsourcing Lessons

September 14, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, more RLG Partners and others have participated in the Flickr Commons, all to try to leverage what’s become known as “crowdsourcing” — “the …

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Collective Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums

The Smithsonian Challenge – Dr Wayne Clough @ SALT

August 19, 2009August 19, 2009 - by Günter Waibel - 3 Comments.

Earlier this week, I heard Dr Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, speak as part of the Long Now’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT) series. In his talk, …

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries / Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums

Beyond “Beyond the Silos of the LAMs”

August 13, 2009 - by Ricky Erway

Those of you in Austin for SAA might want to consider attending what promises to be a great panel presentation: SESSION 704 – Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Converging for Real …

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Collective Collections / Museums / Searching

Smithsonian Web Strategy, CultureLabel: The Impact of Network Effects

July 31, 2009 - by Günter Waibel

The Smithonian just announced the release of its Web and New Media Strategy v 1.0 [pdf], which has come together swiftly in a process of marvelous openness and inclusion. As …

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums

The scale of orphan relief

June 9, 2009October 12, 2020 - by John MacColl

The phrase orphan works recalls the world of Oliver Twist, so perhaps it’s appropriate that JISC has just announced the publication of a UK report looking at the ‘orphan problem’ …

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Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Museums

Digital Image Licensing – The debate rages on…

May 26, 2009 - by Günter Waibel

Whenever the topic of digital image licensing comes up, I listen closely. While my eyes tend to glaze over when somebody tries to explain the legalese of it all to …

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